ISBN: 0553296981I had finished reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a young girl a few days ago. This book is the most popular war documentary of the Second World War and perhaps of all times. It was published in 1947 and since then it has been translated into more than thirty languages and adapted for theatre film and television. In her introduction to the diary's first American edition, ...
Sep 30, 2006View Comments
Anne Frank: The Diary of a young girl (Book Review 006)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Sep 28, 2006View Comments
Wings of Fire – Arun Tiwari and APJ Abdul Kalam (Book Review 005)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN: 8173711461Tagline: An autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari“Wings of fire” was perhaps the first book which I had read completely and which was not a part of my school or college syllabus :-). I had read this book in 2003 i.e. after Dr. Kalam was appointed the President of India. As I was not into the habit of reading then, I wondered if I would ...
Sep 27, 2006View Comments
Cluster maps finally
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Yesterday, I was finally able to secure a clustermaps account for this blog. The registration service was blocked for a long time and I did not know any one who would invite me. However, they have reopened the registrations for now and those who wish to use this service, your time is now.Clustermaps is a free online service that allows a website/blog to display the locations in the ...
Sep 26, 2006View Comments
Freakonomics – Levitt & Dubner (Book Review 004)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN: 006073132XTagline: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.I had completed reading Freakonomics over a month ago and was pretty much glued to it then. However, now that I have decided to pick up The world is flat and a few Malcolm Gladwell’s books, I thought that I should finish this book’s review so that I do not mix things up.About the authorsI am not an ...
Sep 22, 2006View Comments
Rake in feeds with blogger beta and OPML (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I am not sure about classic blogger, but I can definitely tell about blogger beta, that it has a number of options to choose from as far as feeds are concerned. If you have the right idea, you can use all of these feeds to offer your readers the flexibility to choose what they wish to read and how.Full posts feed of your blog:http://[your blog].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full (updated as ...
Sep 20, 2006View Comments
Label feeds and peek-a-boo for sidebar (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,I had read about label feeds somewhere a while ago but ignored the idea thinking that I won't need label feeds. Little did I realize that label feeds is a very good feature for a blog like mine where I got multiple categories that are fundamentally different.So finally I implemented label feeds after reading about it from Phydeaux3's blog. Now, readers who are not interested in the ...
Sep 19, 2006View Comments
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho (Book Review 003)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN: 0062502182Tagline: A Magical Fable about following your dreamThis book review was long due. I had read this book over two years ago after a friend suggested it to me but never got a chance to pen down anything about it (I did not have a blog back then). After this book, I have read only one another book of Paulo Coelho, till date, i.e. Eleven Minutes and ...
Sep 18, 2006View Comments
Open feed’s links in new window
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Based on the hack/mod I suggested in my article on link-lists in blogger beta, I have extended the same idea to feed displays that one may have in their blog.Feeds are a powerful and popular means of staying updated and they are also powerful distracters on a blog. If you have feeds to other blogs or news sites (like I have), it would be a good idea to ...
Sep 17, 2006View Comments
Hack updates
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,Here is your round of hack updates which covers recently introduced new hacks for blogger beta.1. Expandable/collapsible post with Peek-a-boo style (updated to Super peek-a-boo)Ramani has come out with another hack where in users can provide their reader with a summary view of their post and a peek-a-boo style link to view the rest of the post. This is a very good hack for people like me ...
Sep 16, 2006View Comments
Listen to your blog and blog podcasting
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I have recently added a “Listen to this article” link in my post footer and a link to my podcast feed in my blog’s sidebar. Using the link in my post footer, you can listen to my articles by way of streaming mp3 audio. Isn’t that cool?Yes. But how did you do that?I was never into podcasting and had no clue about it. However, while browsing instabloke, I ...
Sep 16, 2006View Comments
How to add some thing to the post footer (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I have had a few people who wished to learn how I added the various links that I have in my post footer. I have written this small tutorial which I derived from my previous post about adding social bookmark hotlinks to post footer. I have written this article assuming that you are aware of basic HTML formatting and codes don’t scare you :-).Before we proceed, I suggest ...
Sep 10, 2006View Comments
Linklists don’t open in a new window and new hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Just a quick update. I found that links added via the link list feature do not open in a new window. This might take away traffic from your blog. The solution to this is however, very simple. Open up you template's HTML code in expanded widgets format. Copy the entire code into notepad or some text editor and search for a particular link list using its title. (In ...
Sep 9, 2006View Comments
From rags to riches and hack updates
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I found this article on rediff.com. It's about a man who came out of absolute no where and completed his engineering/MBA from premier institutes in India to become an entrepreneur. A very inspiring and touching tale. Click here to read the article.On the hacks front:Please make a note of Hacks Wiki. This is a one stop database which contains most of the hacks that are available out there. ...
Sep 8, 2006View Comments
Hacks from Hoctro’s place and other hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hey all,There is a nice add-on or improvement to Ramani's original hack on sorting and display of search, label and archive results available here. Here is a description of the hack:"My improved hack is based upon not showing the date at which a post is created, and make the posts indented as a nice bulleted list" - HoctroHowever if you do want the date header on the label ...
Sep 6, 2006View Comments
Hide your Nav bar, add search and other blogger beta hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hiding the navbar in blogger beta is not much of a task but it has been made a piece of cake by praveen of apt thinking.... Click here to learn how to hide the nav bar in a jiffy.The search box on my blog has been picked up from here. Simple code and no scripts make it light and cool . You might also want to checkout that ...
Sep 5, 2006View Comments
Translate blogs using Google (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I have been able to locate the URLs used for submitting a page to the Google translate tool. I have incorporated them into my template such that the links appear under every post and readers can use it to translate a post into another language. Currently Google translate supports few languages and I will update my post footer when they add more languages.You can view and copy the ...
Sep 4, 2006View Comments
Get socially bookmarked! (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)See the image links to the social book marking sites under each of my post footers?Working on Ramani’s original post regarding adding hotlinks to Del.icio.us and digit!. I learnt how to rearrange the stuff that appears under each post using the widget code in the template and also added images instead of plain text links for hot linking purpose. Thanks to one Cal Evans I was able to ...
Sep 3, 2006View Comments
Three column template finally!
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Do you find my blog radically different since your last visit? Yup its the three column template! Many thanks to Ramani of Hackosphere for working with the existing beta template codes to convert it to a three column template.Three column templates are useful if you have too many items on your sidebar and wish to avoid superlong side bars. To learn more about these templates click here. ...
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